The Candles of Copenhagen
On the evening of May 4, 1945, a BBC announcer read a single sentence that changed everything for the people of Denmark: "The German forces...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 52:7-10.
On the evening of May 4, 1945, a BBC announcer read a single sentence that changed everything for the people of Denmark: "The German forces in Holland, northwest Germany, and Denmark have surrendered." Within minutes, Copenhagen erupted. Families who had endured five years of Nazi occupation pulled blackout curtains from their windows for the last time and set candles on their sills — thousands of them, block after block, until the darkened city blazed with light.…
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